Click to Subscribe
‘Burn!’
The Exegesis of Phillip K. Dick: Letter to Claudia Bush, July 24, 1974
© 2020 James LaFond
MAR/12/20
[4:73]
Dick mentions some mundane meeting with a magazine writer who writes disparagingly of him even after he offered the man some eggs. Then, in a pained vein, seeming already to be disenchanted with that which possesses him on the day-to-day and hoping for more of the Creator visions, he is, in perfect ancient form, convinced that the half-pint deity [being a beautified ancestral physician, Aklepios, is something of a faltering or fallen angel, a duplicitous visitation charged with Dick’s illumination yet not entirely respectful of him. This deity, in Dick’s mind stands offstage—Dick being the stage—at the head of a disparaging chorus of lesser lights, come jaunting down the stairs of Time to snicker at he who struggles at its opaque nadir.
“…the scales falling from my eyes and my illusions shot to hell. I had been talked to four times already that night by Asklepios and several people with him, and all at once I discovered that he was telling me the usual mount of half-truths and lies and opinions like anyone else…”
Dick’s joy at being contacted by the Creator from outside of Time has given way to the bitterness of being assigned an all too human [angelic?] case worker from further back in Time. Dick has become Job, vexed with Satan’s instructional attention clouding his hazy but once clear Almighty intention.
He goes on to describe himself as a spiritual child—which, based on his drug use and secular hysteria over politics is obvious—and sulks like a child for discovering his parents have flaws. Like Aeneas, whose mother Venus visits him in disguise, and who is unable to contact Jove Almighty who resides outside of Time, Dick yearns for more direct contact with the eternal.
‘To Walk Toward the Dawn’
logos
‘The Psychopomp’
eBook
wife—
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
menthol rampage
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
masculine axis
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
z-pill forever
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
thriving in bad places
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
on the overton railroad
eBook
night city
eBook
america the brutal
eBook
when you're food
eBook
let the world fend for itself
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
logic of force
eBook
book of nightmares
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
ranger?
eBook
the combat space
eBook
advent america
eBook
hate
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
into leviathan’s maw
eBook
songs of aryas
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
triumph
eBook
fate
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
on combat
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
the first boxers
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
all-power-fighting
eBook
the gods of boxing
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
beasts of aryas
eBook
sorcerer!
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
broken dance
eBook
fanatic
eBook
dark, distant futures
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
predation
eBook
honor among men
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
eBook
taboo you
eBook
the lesser angels of our nature
eBook
sons of aryas
  Add a new comment below:
Name
Email
Message